Staff Software Engineer

Chewy•Boston, MA

About The Position

Our Opportunity Chewy is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the Practice Hub engineering team, part of the Vet Clinics organization. The Practice Hub tech team is focused on building scalable, reliable, and intuitive prescription and marketplace platform with supporting APIs - for clinics to manage prescriptions approval and writing, order prescription items for their clinic from multiple vendors, and improve outcomes through data‑driven insights and modern engineering practices. We empower veterinarians, technicians, and pet parents through innovative technology, intelligent automation, and seamless digital workflows. As a Staff Engineer, you will drive the architecture, design, and implementation of a suite of software services that support diverse operational workflows and deliver a fulfillment experience that delights our customers. This senior technical leadership role offers broad exposure across Chewy's health products and services, providing the opportunity to define the long-term engineering vision and practices that will scale and grow the Vet Care business. About You You excel at leading large engineering teams and guiding backend-focused architecture and design. Our systems leverage loosely coupled components, real-time event processing, AWS workflows, a federated GraphQL API for unified data access, and an aggregated data pipeline that ingests signals from predictive ML models and recommendation engines. You will work with technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Node.js, GraphQL, DynamoDB, SNS/SQS, AWS ECS/Fargate, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda to build and scale the platform. In this role, you will lead the creation and deployment of new prototypes, applications, systems, and services that support the standardization, optimization, automation, and process infrastructure of the Chewy Vet Care business and operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience.
15+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer and/or team lead.
10+ years of experience building modern JavaScript applications and frameworks (React, Vue, Angular).
15+ years of experience developing scalable, distributed microservice applications using Java, JavaScript, and/or Spring Boot.
Hands-on experience designing, building, and deploying scalable, highly available systems.
Ability to function as a hands-on engineer—comfortable writing complex code and debugging challenging issues.
Strong understanding of professional software engineering practices across the full development lifecycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Proficiency in core computer science fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, problem-solving, and complexity analysis.

Nice To Haves

Experience in e-commerce.
Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or XP.
Experience with configuration and deployment tools such as Terraform or Ansible, along with knowledge of infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, and virtualization.
Experience in data analysis or data mining within large-scale database environments.
Experience with TypeScript and GraphQL.
Familiarity with test-driven development and testing frameworks such as Jest and Cypress.
Working knowledge of AWS services and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical leader for your team, driving project delivery, system design, and mentoring engineers across scrum teams.
Design, develop, and implement solutions using a broad set of technologies, with a strong emphasis on scalability, low latency, and resiliency.
Conduct code and implementation reviews, providing clear, constructive feedback that enables engineers to build higher-quality services.
Apply DevOps principles and best practices to deliver high-quality software with minimal technical debt.
Build and maintain strong working relationships across all organizational levels and cross-functional teams.
Own major components of the Chewy Vet Care platform, spanning responsibilities across both development and operational domains.

Benefits

401k
new hire and annual equity grant
annual bonus
medical/Rx insurance
vision insurance
dental insurance
life insurance
disability insurance
hospital indemnity insurance
critical illness insurance
accident insurance
parental leave
family services benefits
backup dependent care
flexible spending accounts
telemedicine
pet adoption reimbursement
employee assistance program
10% off pet insurance
20% off at Chewy.com
unlimited PTO (subject to manager approval)
six paid holidays per year
paid sick and family leave (in compliance with applicable state and local regulations)